Monique Gabriela Curnen

Monique Gabriela Curnen
Monique Gabriela Curnen
	Curnen in 2008
Born	September 7, 1970 (age 54)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Williams College
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present

Monique Gabriela Curnen (born September 7, 1970) is an American actress.

Early life and education

Curnen was born on September 7, 1970. Her mother is from Puerto Rico, and her father is of German and Irish descent.^[1] She grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts and went to Williams College,^[2] where she concentrated on other studies. After college, she spent a year (1992–93) as a full-time intern at Unity House, the Minority Cultural Center, at Connecticut College in New London. She then moved to New York and started taking acting classes and going to auditions.^[3]

Career

Curnen has appeared in several films including Bollywood Calling (2001), Half Nelson (2006) and The Dark Knight (2008), in which she played corrupt Police Detective Anna Ramirez. She also played the colleague of Paul Walker's character Brian O'Connor in Fast & Furious (2009) in a cameo.

She has also appeared in numerous television series including Dexter (in the season 1 episodes "Let's Give the Boy a Hand" and "Love American Style"), House M.D. (in the episode "House Training", 2007) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (in the episode "Quickie", 2010). She played Detective Allison Beaumont in the 2009 police procedural drama series The Unusuals. She has appeared on the television series Sons of Anarchy, playing Amelia Dominguez. She appeared in the season finale of Season 2 of Lie to Me ("Black and White", 2010) as Detective Sharon Wallowski, whom she continued to play in Season 3 in a major recurring role.^[4] She appeared in a 2014 episode of the TV Series Person of Interest as Precinct Captain Moreno, and two episodes in Season 4 of the television series Elementary as Detective Gina Cortes^[5] and then in The Mentalist as Tamsin Wade in the fifth season. Curnen joined the main cast for the final (2019–20) season of the Starz television series Power, playing Detective Blanca Rodriguez.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2001	Bollywood Calling	Isabel
2004	Maria Full of Grace	Receptionist
2006	Half Nelson	Isabel Redding
2008	The Dark Knight	Detective Anna Ramirez
2008	Life in Flight	Janey
2008	Bernard and Doris	Paloma
2009	Fast & Furious	FBI Agent
2011	Contagion	Lorraine Vasquez
2011	The Good Doctor	Nurse Maryanne
2023	Birth/Rebirth	Rita

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Shark	Claudia Reyes	Episode: "Fashion Police"
2006	Dexter	Yelina	Episode: "Let's Give the Boy a Hand", "Love American Style"
2007	House M.D.	Lupe	Episode: "House Training"
2009	The Unusuals	Detective Allison Beaumont	Main role.
2010	Sons of Anarchy	Amelia Dominguez	Three episodes
2010	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Attorney Owens	Episode: "Quickie"
2010–2011	Lie to Me	Detective Sharon Wallowski	Recurring (seasons 2–3)
2012	The Mentalist	Tamsin Wade	Fifth season
2013	Longmire	Amaya Vyas	Episode: "Death Came In Like Thunder"
2014	Revenge	Detective Reyes	Execution
2014	Person of Interest	Precinct Captain Moreno	Wingman
2015	The Following	Erin Sloan	Recurring role; Nine episodes
2015	Elementary	Detective Gina Cortes	2 episodes
2017	Taken	Vlasik
2018–2020	Power	Blanca Rodriguez
2019	God Friended Me	Officer Sarah Matthews	Episode "From Paris With Love"
2020	Lincoln Rhyme - Hunt For The Bone Collector	Linda Vaughn	Episode 7 'Requiem'
2020	Away	Melissa Ramirez	Recurring role, 8 episodes
2020, 2022–2024	Power Book II: Ghost	Blanca Rodriguez	Recurring (season 1), Guest (seasons 2 & 4), Main (seasons 3).
2022	Power Book IV: Force	Blanca Rodriguez	Episode "Family Business"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	True Crime: New York City		Credited as Monique Curnen^[6]

References

^ "County Fare: On International Women's Day, a look at Berkshire-based women making their mark". The Berkshire Eagle. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
^ Monique Gabriela Curnen CV amanda howard associates 2011
^ Quintala, Lisa (August 20, 2008). "Monique Curnen, una hispana en Ciudad Gótica" Archived January 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, People en Español (in Spanish).
^ Wightman, Catriona (July 22, 2010). "Monique Curnen lands Lie to Me role", Digital Spy.
^ CBS Press Release (January 19, 2016). "Holmes & Watson must search for a killer...", CBS Press Express
^ Luxoflux. True Crime: New York City. Activision. Scene: Pause menu credits, 4:29:17 in, VOICE TALENT.

External links

Monique Gabriela Curnen at IMDb
Monique Curnen at DVRepublic (2006-02-16)

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[1] "County Fare: On International Women's Day, a look at Berkshire-based women making their mark". The Berkshire Eagle. Retrieved January 22, 2018.

[2] Monique Gabriela Curnen CV amanda howard associates 2011

[Quintala-3] Quintala, Lisa (August 20, 2008). "Monique Curnen, una hispana en Ciudad Gótica" Archived January 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, People en Español (in Spanish).

[4] Wightman, Catriona (July 22, 2010). "Monique Curnen lands Lie to Me role", Digital Spy.

[5] CBS Press Release (January 19, 2016). "Holmes & Watson must search for a killer...", CBS Press Express

[tcnyc-6] Luxoflux. True Crime: New York City. Activision. Scene: Pause menu credits, 4:29:17 in, VOICE TALENT.

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